Off to Muck

A few days to recover, mend the caisean-uchd, the van, and the horse masks, and tomorrow we're off to Mallaig ready for the ferry to Muck on Thursday morning, followed by a quick sprint down to another ferry, this time to Islay.

I've found time between jobs to read the Comments Book from Edinburgh, and it's full of glowing comments including:

"A story of beauty, sanity and one man's truth. Courageous, weaving through life itself. Stunning production in its vast sway of talents."

[From Liz Lochhead]:

"The most beautiful, moving, magical & amazing show about Art & extraordinary, ordinary life."

"Second time and it's even more profound"

"Beautiful singing"

....and so on!

Soon we'll be back in Glasgow - at Partick Gaelic School on Wednesday 4th September, and then on Thursday 5th there's a special event at Perth Museum & Art Gallery relating to their exhibition 'Weaver of Grass' about Angus MacPhee, which obviously relates to our show there on the 6th and 7th September, and finally to say that our  old friend Joanne B Kaar is running a special grass weaving workshop at Perth a month later - on the 7th October.

Worth saying that tickets for the Glasgow Partick Gaelic School performance can be bought directly from our website shop - click here.

Gas-masks, masks and horses...

Now that there's less than three weeks before rehearsals start there's a scramble to get things made and finished in time. The workshop is full of weird and wonderful things all in a half-completed state. A volunteer, Amber, is finishing the gas-masks started by the Portuguese interns (above) - nightmarish things for the scene where Angus suffers his schizophrenic breakdown; Jonny is making backstage racks to hold the 15 masks we're using in the show; Alison is carving horses (below)

Christina is working on a fire-effect for the caisein-uchd, sheeps wool and tallow torches used on New Years Eve - Hogmanay, or Oidhche Chullaig. Vanessa Card has tidied up the set and I've been able to finish the painting. Finally, Loz has started work on the music, and Daniella and Ellie on the animations....